HALPERIN ALLEGES 4 INSTANCES OF CIA EXPLOITING THE MEDIA

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CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250094-6
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December 15, 2016
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July 30, 2004
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94
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January 5, 1978
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WASHINGTON POST TJ ...PAGE Approved. FWA9I : CIA-RDP81 M00980R000600250094-6 r~,eesof CIA Exploiting, the Me4iciv Washington Po i Stair' Writer In at least ' four instances the Cen trap .intelligence Agency exploited its relationship with foreign and Ameri- can news media to improperly influ- ence events, and opinions in the United States, .a noted`CIA critic testi- fied yesterda Morton H.; Halperin,, director, of the Center for National 'Security -Studies, a' Washington-based organization Grit- ical. of the, Intelligence; community, told a House oversight subcommittee that, among other: things, the CIA gave a false briefing to a,representa tive of ' Time magazine on Chilean. Marxist leader Salvador Allende and the political situation in Chile around the time of Allende's election as presi- dent. A CIA copy of the briefing paper, portions of which Halperin obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that it argued in considera- ble detail that Allende and his Chi- lean Communist Party sought to de-' stroy the free press there. This Sept. 18, 1970, briefing, Halperin said, con- sisted of the same information the CIA was disseminating to its Latin American sources for use against Al- lende. ,-,Particularly bb~ectxonable, Ha'Jperin depended on having that same. image 'The. aim of this, dispatch,'" thhee; di " t d restive continued, "is to prove said were personal